UBC Department of Computer Science

The UBC Computer Science department at the University of British Columbia was established in May 1968. UBC CS is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. As of May 2020, it has 55 faculty, 35 staff, 200 graduate students, and 1300 undergraduates.[1]

History

The Computer Science department was established in May 1968 by six founding UBC faculty members:[2]

  1. After more than a decade working with Atomic Energy of Canada, Dr. Kennedy joined the department in January 1966 as Director of the Computing Centre, a position he held until June 1980. The Computing Centre served computing needs across the university, including Computer Science. In addition, he became a professor in the Department of Computer Science in 1968.
  2. Hugh Dempster was one of the founding members of the department of Computer Science in 1968. Prior to that, Hugh had worked at UBC in the Computing Centre.
  3. Edward Argyle, another founding member, had worked at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Lab in Penticton, and published widely on computer science and astrophysics.
  4. Founding member, Wilfred J. Hansen wrote one of the founding texts on data structures, "Data Structures" and "Data Structures in Pascal".
  5. John L. Allard was a founding faculty member.
  6. John J.E.L. Peck was the first Department Head and remained so until 1977.

Research activities

The department's research activities are organized around a number of collaborative research groups:[3]


Ratings

The department is rated by Maclean's annual rankings as the second best computer science university program in Canada.[4]

The department is ranked 25th in the world by the QS World University Rankings.[5]

UBC is ranked as the 45th best university in the world by QS World University Rankings.[6]

Notable Faculty
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See also

References
  1. "Canada's Top 10 Universities to Pursue a Computer Science Degree". Canada Study News. 2017-10-30. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
  2. "Historic milestones". UBC Computer Science.
  3. "Research". UBC Computer Science.
  4. "Canada's best university computer science programs: 2020 rankings - Macleans.ca". www.macleans.ca. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
  5. "QS World University Rankings 2021". Top Universities. 2020-05-28. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
  6. "University of British Columbia". Top Universities. 2015-07-16. Retrieved 2020-06-23.

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